Jury to get attempted murder case today

The defendant in an attempted murder trial testified Thursday he "just lost it" when he attacked a Walmart co-worker last summer after what he described as four months of racial harassment.

"I pretty much just quit thinking," Charles Weddington, 19, said softly, looking straight at the jury. "I was hurt (by the racial slurs), and I felt disrespected. I felt nothing else could be done because no one (in Walmart management) was going to help me.